Lean Times Call For Hefty Automation

摘要

Since private project construction has slowed down, it is amazing to see the number of companies crossing over to bid on transportation work. Long gone are the days of three to five bidders. Today, it is common for a job to have 15 or 20 bidders. Oneofourtransportation customers reported that they had 39 bids for just one roadway job. When you have that many companies vying for work, you will of course get leaner bids with tighter margins. That's when accurate and real-time job cost information becomes critical for tighter job costing and quicker turnaround of true-cost information. Since our company focuses on automating the operating side of construction business, we watch the ways that software impacts bottom-line performance. We are finding that more and more companies use software to build efficiency and automate functions as they lay people off and have to do more with less. Time sheets are a simple yet great example. You'd be surprised how many companies still perform triple and quadruple data entry activities just to log hours.